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12 March 2007

Replication: A Difficult Endeavor Made Even More So

If replication was not already difficult in many instances, a recent post at the Social Science Statistics Blog reveals that, for studies using certain finance data (specifically, data on stock analyst recommendations), the degree of difficulty is materially higher than one might imagine. Evidently, certain data sources (notably in the finance sector) resemble "ever-shifting moving targets."